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Greenland and Denmark connected Sunday (January 4, 2025) expressed their distaste aft the woman of President Donald Trump's astir influential adjutant posted a societal media representation of Greenland painted successful the colours of the U.S. flag.
Katie Miller — woman of Trump's lawman main of unit Stephen Miller — enactment the contentiously altered representation of the Danish autonomous territory connected her X feed precocious Saturday (January 3), aft the U.S. subject cognition against Venezuela.
Her station had a azygous connection supra it: "SOON".
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen called the station "disrespectful".
"Relations betwixt nations and peoples are built connected communal respect and planetary instrumentality -- not connected symbolic gestures that disregard our presumption and our rights," helium stated connected X.
But helium besides said that "there is neither crushed for panic nor for concern. Our state is not for sale, and our aboriginal is not decided by societal media posts".
Denmark's ambassador to the U.S., Jesper Moeller Soerensen, reacted earlier connected Sunday (January 4) with his ain station saying "we expect afloat respect for the territorial integrity" of Denmark, supra a nexus to Katie Miller's image.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly made wide that helium wants Greenland to go an annexed portion of the United States.
Moves edging towards that extremity by his authorities — including his assignment of an envoy to the Danish territory — person drawn the ire of some Copenhagen and the European Union.
'Friendly reminder'
Stephen Miller is wide seen arsenic the designer of overmuch of Mr. Trump's policies, guiding the president connected his hardline migration policies and home agenda.
The United States's European allies were rattled by Mr. Trump sending successful his subject connected Saturday (January 3) to onslaught Caracas and drawback Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, who is present being held by U.S. authorities successful New York.
Mr. Trump has said the United States volition present "run" Venezuela indefinitely and pat its immense lipid reserves.
In Greenland's case, Mr. Trump has claimed that making the Danish territory portion of the United States would service U.S. nationalist information interests, fixed its strategical determination connected the Arctic. Greenland is besides affluent successful cardinal captious minerals utilized successful high-tech sectors.
Asked successful a telephone interrogation with The Atlantic astir the implications of the Venezuela subject cognition for Greenland, Mr. Trump said that it was up to others to decide, according to the magazine.
"They are going to person to presumption it themselves. I truly don't know," Mr. Trump was quoted arsenic saying. He added: "But we bash request Greenland, absolutely. We request it for defense."
Denmark's ambassador gave a pointed "friendly reminder" successful effect to Katie Miller's station that his state — a NATO subordinate — has "significantly boosted its Arctic information efforts" and worked unneurotic with the U.S. connected that.
"We are adjacent allies and should proceed to enactment unneurotic arsenic such," Mr. Soerensen wrote.
Katie Miller was lawman property caput nether Trump astatine the Department of Homeland Security during his archetypal term.
She aboriginal worked arsenic communications manager for past vice president Mike Pence and besides acted arsenic his property secretary.
